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Taking a Ford Focus in photo is easy. This is the hard stuff. I’ll spare you the details but yes, I had a marine aquarium for 10 years. I managed to keep some fishes for eight years before donating them. At some point, my cameras were worth more than my Focus. Enjoy.

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hEaT said:
Wow! Please share more of those. I love the Bluejay pic.
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I published this a few years ago. This is all my aquarium series. I started a marine aquarium in 2000 and mainly discontinued it in 2012 as my back didn’t allow me to haul gallons and gallons of seawater (made with distilled water and specialized salt mix). Before that I was into freshwater aquarium but seawater is high maintenance and very expensive. Ecologically, seawater aquariums had also become harmful to the environment because of the greed of the people capturing the fishes and taking coral rock samples. One guy was arrested in some country because he was using explosives to capture the fishes: he’d stick some explosives in the water to shock the fishes and netting them while seized. He was exposed because most of the fishes would die a couple weeks later. I had heard enough and along with my back hurting, it was time to quit.

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Benjilafouine said:
One guy was arrested in some country because he was using explosives to capture the fishes: he’d stick some explosives in the water to shock the fishes and netting them while seized. He was exposed because most of the fishes would die a couple weeks later. I had heard enough and along with my back hurting, it was time to quit.
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Yep. Explosives mostly used to capture large reef fish for selling and personal consumption. Of course it kills or stuns the small fish too. Cyanide is the big one used to capture the rare or prized acquarium fish. Both ways, a lot of the fish that survive, die a short time later and both ways kill the reef.

Nics pics, though!

Oh yeah, was going to say that have had that problem with the 05. It went away after I fixed the leaky hatch so it probably was moisture in my case.
 
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WhatALemon said:
Yep. Explosives mostly used to capture large reef fish for selling and personal consumption. Of course it kills or stuns the small fish too. Cyanide is the big one used to capture the rare or prized acquarium fish. Both ways, a lot of the fish that survive, die a short time later and both ways kill the reef.

Nics pics, though!

Oh yeah, was going to say that have had that problem with the 05. It went away after I fixed the leaky hatch so it probably was moisture in my case.
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I have absolutely no clue where it came from because the car barely sees rain. It’s still doing it a little but I’m going for a longer drive today and I hope it will clear up.
 
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WhatALemon said:
Oh yeah, was going to say that have had that problem with the 05. It went away after I fixed the leaky hatch so it probably was moisture in my case.
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I was rereading your post and you wrote “hatch”. Do you mean hatch as in hatchback (or trunk in my case)? The harness going to be trunk has a tendency to twist. Could some humidity be there? I already recovered the harness years ago.

Edit: definitely not the wiring in my trunk.
 
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I thought that 60 miles on a sunny highway would have fixed the issue but it always comes back. I had only one hour without the problem last week.

I may have to service that cluster after all. I hate bugs, having worked in IT all my life!
 
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have a hatchback that used to let water in to soak the carpet and sometime collect in the spare well. My gauges were jumpy when turning off and turning on the car before settling down until I fixed the leak. Guessing that it was due to the humidity in the car.

I seem to recall I saw it again when the car went through a period of not driving much but it has been a long time.
 
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pbfoot said:
Other possible water ingress points are a torn water shield under the door panels. Or it could have pulled away from the adhesive.
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Nope on all counts. I actually replaced the bottom rubber shields a few years ago. For the shields all around the doors, they are like new. They are getting treatment every year.

Really, I have absolutely have no clue where any humidity could be. The only place that I can think of are the water gutters below the wipers although I also replaced them with new ones three years ago. However, these gutters are not that great because they can let debris in between the windshield and the gutter. And again, all debris were removed in May when I had the windshield replaced (the old one had become difficult to see through).

Windshield looks good and I see no sign of humidity sI far. As I mentioned before, the car barely sees rain. Scratching my head.
 
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Benjilafouine said:
Nope on all counts. I actually replaced the bottom rubber shields a few years ago. For the shields all around the doors, they are like new. They are getting treatment every year.

Really, I have absolutely have no clue where any humidity could be. The only place that I can think of are the water gutters below the wipers although I also replaced them with new ones three years ago. However, these gutters are not that great because they can let debris in between the windshield and the gutter. And again, all debris were removed in May when I had the windshield replaced (the old one had become difficult to see through).

Windshield looks good and I see no sign of humidity sI far. As I mentioned before, the car barely sees rain. Scratching my head.
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Water shields are behind the door panels.
 
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Benjilafouine said:
Noticed this morning that when I turn off the engine on my 2003 Focus, the temperature and gasoline gauges continue moving, going up and down.

Even after 10 minutes it was still doing that. I checked the battery and alternator, all good.

What could be the issue?

Edit: I saw this link but it can't be humidity as the car never/barely sees rain. It started this morning out of nowhere.
Temp and Fuel Gauges move with key off | Focus Fanatics Forum

Edit number 2: if I disconnect the battery negative cable, gauges stop moving.
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I saw some You-Tube videos about the drain hose for the air conditioner was plugged so where would all of that water go? The hose was behind the glove box and connects to some kind of grommet in the floor pan. Also they pulled the carpet back. Even if you don't run the air conditioner every day that water must evaporate inside.
 
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Joe Mason said:
I saw some You-Tube videos about the drain hose for the air conditioner was plugged so where would all of that water go? The hose was behind the glove box and connects to some kind of grommet in the floor pan. Also they pulled the carpet back. Even if you don't run the air conditioner every day that water must evaporate inside.
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Mine leaks all fine. Not the issue for sure.
 
Discussion starter · #38 ·
Joe Mason said:
I saw some You-Tube videos about the drain hose for the air conditioner was plugged so where would all of that water go? The hose was behind the glove box and connects to some kind of grommet in the floor pan. Also they pulled the carpet back. Even if you don't run the air conditioner every day that water must evaporate inside.
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However, I can’t deny that some humidity is there. I opened some driver side panels a few weeks back and saw absolutely nothing wet on the console. Still scratching my head. We are again with humidity and hot weather and I can say that the behaviour is not always the same from one day to the other.
 
Discussion starter · #39 ·
Guess what? I replaced both the battery and alternator and the gauges are now OK. The old alternator (installed one year ago) was over charging at 15.1. But I gained another problem…

Look there:

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Bad alternator (my turn)

My one year old alternator is already gone. A rebuilt ACDelco. The part store agreed to exchange it even if I’m 5 days past the warranty date. The lights were flickering on the car last night and the alternator was charging at 15.1 (my tester said High). Then my mechanics friend tested it...
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